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which UB on the table in a tiny little glass tube marked A. odoratw, 

 and eompare it with that of A. Martini in another similar tube, also 

 on the table, extracted by Mr. Prebble of Messrs. Kemp and Co., 

 you will certainly pronounce that the odour of the new species is 

 soft, sweet, and more agreeable than that of .4. Martini', and if it 

 be manufactured on a large scale with great care and by an improved 

 process, if practicable, it may prove superior even to that of A. 

 nardus, and A. titratHs." 

 Atidropogon Hilgelii, Hack. 

 Var. Andropogon • fuetidm, Hack. 

 Ver. Chiman-Sar (Salsette name), Podan. 



The following is w r hat Mrs. Lisboa says about this grass in her paper 

 read at the Bom. Nat. Hist. Society's Meetings, held on 3rd April, 1891. 

 This is a new Andropogon, hitherto inedited. Mr. Madon, Forest 

 Officer of the Thana District, was the first to send to Dr. Lisboa a 

 sweet-scented grass named Podan on Jan. 7th, 1889, and some better 

 specimens of the same in November of the same year. At his 

 request Dr. Lisboa informed him of having identified it as A. Hugelii. 

 " Culm 2h — 4 ft. or more, slender, branching, decumbent and some- 

 times rooting near the base, roundish, grooved on the side of branches 

 and leaves, smooth, glabrous, of a pale purple colour. Sheaths 

 smooth and polished, lower rather loose, upper appressed and some- 

 what carinate, glabrous, shorter than the nodes. Nodes bearded with 

 soft white hairs. Ligula 1 lin. long, truncate, ciliated. Leaves 5 — 8 

 in. long, 6 lin. broad, upper, smaller, linear, lanceolate, narrow, 

 rotundate at the base, terminated gradually into an acute point, 

 sparsely sprinkled with hairs on the lower surface, few or none on the 

 upper, scabrous on both surfaces and margins, distinctly divided into 

 2 unequal parts by r a white rib, prominent on the lower surface. 



Panicle 5 — 7 in. long, erect, oblong, much branched, supported 

 on a long peduncle without a sheath. Ptachis of a faded purple 

 colour, smooth or scabrous from minute tubercles ; nodes 6 — 9 or 

 more ; internodes longer. 



Branches many at each node (6 — 12 at the lowest), alternate, 

 capillary, smooth or scabrous, semi-verticelled, unequal in length, 

 the longest often 5 — 6 noded. Nodes both of the primary rachis and 

 of the branches swollen and bearded, with soft white hairs. 



